All's well that ends well, I suppose...
I waited until Amazon refunded my money, so here's the story.
Amazon advertised a genuine Apple 4TB SSD upgrade kit for the 7,1 Mac Pro. It amounted to about a $400 discount and since I have a 1TB SSD 7,1 I bought it and tried to use it to upgrade.
The bad news is that the "returned" pair of SSDs I received turned out to be a 1TB set. Of course I only found this out after I removed the factory installed pair of SSDs, installed the upgrade set and went through the 2-computer T2 update. After discovering that the new set was the same size as the old, I went through the entire reverse process to reinstall my original SSDs.
The good news is that aside from losing a couple of hours and experiencing disappointment, I was able to restore my 7,1 to its original hardware and current software without losing anything. I returned the chips to Amazon who gave me a refund.
I don't know how the 1TB chips made their way into the 4TB box. I could guess, but that's all it would be, so I won't.
Lesson learned: if you buy the new parts directly from Apple, you only cry once.
Tom
I waited until Amazon refunded my money, so here's the story.
Amazon advertised a genuine Apple 4TB SSD upgrade kit for the 7,1 Mac Pro. It amounted to about a $400 discount and since I have a 1TB SSD 7,1 I bought it and tried to use it to upgrade.
The bad news is that the "returned" pair of SSDs I received turned out to be a 1TB set. Of course I only found this out after I removed the factory installed pair of SSDs, installed the upgrade set and went through the 2-computer T2 update. After discovering that the new set was the same size as the old, I went through the entire reverse process to reinstall my original SSDs.
The good news is that aside from losing a couple of hours and experiencing disappointment, I was able to restore my 7,1 to its original hardware and current software without losing anything. I returned the chips to Amazon who gave me a refund.
I don't know how the 1TB chips made their way into the 4TB box. I could guess, but that's all it would be, so I won't.
Lesson learned: if you buy the new parts directly from Apple, you only cry once.
Tom